Uh Oh! Talk about Inappropriate!

So this is what happens when teachers decide to throw all professionalism out the window and forget the rules.

How else do you explain the lap dance that two teachers performed in front of approximately 100 students at a pep rally at Churchill High School in Winnipeg?

Teachers are supposed to be setting the example for kids, and this is definitely not setting the bar too high. The two teachers in the video were sent home without pay and The Winnipeg School Division is investigating the situation. What do you think? Do you think this whole situation has been blown out of proportion or do you the think the joke went a little too far and the teachers shouldn't be suspended?

Here is the cell phone video that one of the students captured of the incident:

The Tonight Show will return with a Bang!

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno will be returning to NBC right after the Olympics, on March 1, 2010. The show is coming back in full force and the all-star line-up reflects it:

Monday, March 1 - Guests include Jamie Foxx, the Olympic skier Lindsey Vonn and a musical performance by Brad Paisley

Tuesday, March 2 - Guests include Sarah Palin, the Olympic snowboarder Shaun White

Wednesday, March 3 - "Jaywalk All-Stars" with the cast of "Jersey Shore," Chelsea Handler, speed skater Apolo Anton Ohno and a musical performance by Avril Lavigne

Thursday, March 4 - Guests include Matthew McConaughey and Jason Reitman

Friday, March 5 - Guests include Morgan Freeman and Meredith Vieira

Monday, March 8 - Guests include Simon Cowell

Tuesday, March 9 - Guests include Christoph Waltz, the animal expert Dave Salmoni and a musical performance by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts

Wednesday, March 10 - Guests include Kristen Stewart and Guy Fieri

Thursday, March 11 - Guests include Dana Carvey and Kim Kardashian, with a musical performance by Colbie Caillat

Friday, March 12 - Guests include Dakota Fanning and Judd Apatow

Viewers Taking it a Little Too Far

Viewers everywhere have fallen in love with James Cameron's new film, Avatar (2009) and to be honest, I don't blame them. Rarely does a film live up to its expectations after you've heard such hype about it. However, I will give Cameron a lot of credit, his movie is a truly a spectacle and a film you get completely involved in. I was captivated by the world of Pandora and the Na'vi characters.



However, Cameron's completely immersive spectacle may have been a little too real for some fans who say they have experienced depression and suicidal thoughts after seeing the film because they long to enjoy the beauty of the alien world Pandora.

A user named Mike wrote on the film's fan website Na'viblue that he contemplated suicide after seeing the movie.

"Ever since I went to see 'Avatar' I have been depressed. Watching the wonderful world of Pandora and all the Na'vi made me want to be one of them. I can't stop thinking about all the things that happened in the film and all of the tears and shivers I got from it," Mike posted. "I even contemplate suicide thinking that if I do it I will be rebirthed in a world similar to Pandora and the everything is the same as in 'Avatar.' "

This idea of fans taking a movie so seriously and to heart is nothing new. These days, the rule of fandom is anything worth doing, is worth overdoing, often to a terrifying degree. Just take a look at what's going on in 'Hometree', Wisconsin...

Who Dat?

In honour of the New Orleans Saints winning the Super Bowl! Congrats Who Dat Nation! Who knew a doggy would be such a huge fan? :)

A Serious Man

I recently went to go see the Coen Brothers' new film, A Serious Man. I didn't know much about the film before I went, but my brother saw it previously and was dying to see it again. First off, I must say, I can't imagine the film is as funny if you're not Jewish. My mom, brother and I were the only ones laughing at parts because the Coen Brothers hit it right on the button. The Coen Brothers grew up in a Jewish home in Minnesota and use their personal experience to create the setting for the film.

A Serious Man opens with a dimly lit folktale prologue about a dybbuk — the dislocated soul of a dead person who curses a home into which he’s been invited — and a thrust dagger that might permanently seal the fate of the Gopnik clan.

From this, the Coens cosmically deliver us into the 1967 world of Larry Gopnik (Michael Stuhlbarg, sweaty and strangely resembling Joaquin Phoenix).

Larry is is a brilliant but tormented physics university professor up for tenure, who suffers through a number of endurance tests. His life is suddenly coming apart in all directions and he can't understand it since he considers himself a good person.

Larry learns, out of the blue, that his wife Judith (Sari Lennick) wants a divorce with a gett (a Jewish ritual divorce so she can have a rabbi perform the ceremony when she remarries) to marry of all people, the film's ironically called serious person, an overbearing recent widower named Sy Ableman (Fred Melamed).



As Larry's tsuris (woes) intensifies, with even more incidents thrown into the mix like a fender-bender, and having to pay for his wife's new interest's funeral, we catch him consulting with his high-priced divorce attorney (Adam Arkin) and with three learned rabbis to help him understand why things have gone awry.

The young rabbi speaks in metaphorical clichés. An older rabbi offers gnomic stories including a hilariously pointless one told in flashback about a dentist who discovers a message written in Hebrew on the back of a Gentile's teeth. The last rabbi, an ancient figure from the European past, is too deep in thought to give him an audience, though he later turns up in a comic and extremely moving scene with Danny after his bar mitzvah.

Eventually, Larry, who always tried to be a serious person, live up to expectations and be a good person who helps others, finds there are no such things as definite answers to the meaning of life. After all, no one said it would be easy to find out what God wants us to do.

At first, the film is slightly frustrating because it leaves a lot of open-ended questions. However the film makes you think, and stays with you a few days after your first viewing. A Serious Man is definitely not your average blockbuster - but something new and refreshing! Check out the trailer: